A Reunion and A Review

We truly enjoyed having our good friends Don and Kathy Rose visiting with us this past weekend. We spent a lot of time Friday evening sharing pictures of our trip last year to Australia & New Zealand that we took with them and it brought back a lot of great memories. It was an awesome trip that was made even better by sharing it with good friends. As you can see in these two pictures, we visited old town St. Charles on Saturday and had a lot of fun walking around visiting all the shops and checking out the historical stuff, like this old train station and the Lewis & Clark statue on the riverside. This was one of their stops (L&C that is) on their famous trip across the country two centuries ago. We also had lunch at a restaurant named for them, which I feel confident wasn't around when they came through. On Sunday, after church/family time and lunch, Don and Kathy had to head back to Nashville. We are so thankful that they found the time to come visit. We stayed up too late talking and playing cards, and we ate way too much, but -hey - that's what you do with good friends. We can't wait for the next vacation we get to take together in June of '08. They've been with us on every group cruise we've taken, and a big reason why each one has been so much fun.

Donna and I went to see Evan Almighty this afternoon. I hope you get to see it and enjoy it as much as we did. Sure it's unbelieveble and I know several people who will be "punching holes" in the theology that's presented, but let me encourage you to just relax and have fun with it. It's warm, encouraging, pro-family, and even pro-God - and how often does that come out of Hollywood? The CG stuff is better than the earlier movies about the original story! Call me crazy, but I like Morgan Freeman as God. His comments to Evan's wife, when he appears as a waiter in the restaurant she's eating in, are awesome. It sounds exactly like something I'd expect God to say. There's plenty to laugh at and the "good vs. evil" part of the plot is shallow and predictable, but that's okay because I love happy endings! And speaking of endings, don't jump up and run out. There's a little dance video/out-take thing during the first half of the credits that's neat. Oh, check out God's waiter name-tag in the restaurant. Go see it!